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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃

@airheadedaviator.bsky.social

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The aviation lover, anime watcher, Bionicle builder, car driver, emo-punk music appreciator, Spongebob memer, him…mer. Hi He/him 28 ADHD profile pic: a winged balloon with a large grin, colored orange

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · Dec 8

The Swoosh was born 9 years ago in 2015, and ever since then I’ve been developing, revamping and and advancing the concept!

Sometimes its easy to loose sight of that fact, but here’s a visual of all the iterations, successes and failures that have built what I’ve done up to now #avgeek #rc

A collage of 9 versions of the Swoosh, all remote control electric foam airplanes, dating from 2015 to 2020

A collage of 6 different Swoosh designs, 4 electric remote control propeller planes, two electric ducted fan planes, dated from 2020 to 2024

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 2h

"I don't think at all" 🗿

a man in a red jacket is helping a woman out of a car in front of a crowd .

ALT: a man in a red jacket is helping a woman out of a car in front of a crowd .

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 5h

This is his plane btw. Idk if Rock has room to talk about how others should or shouldn't express themselves lol

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 5h

This plane is NOT touching Mach anything!

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 5h

MY problem is that despite getting a definitive number on the thrust, the math on how fast the Efflux is STILL doesn't make sense!

Power = Thrust Force x Exit Nozzle Velocity, and this suggests the exit nozzle velocity is Mach 3??? Like that clearly isn't accurate right?

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 5h

Now this suggests however that the fans are making 500 grams less thrust static per fan than what the manufacturer says, but since the inlets are designed for flight and not static, that's not too unsurprising. Perhaps other ways to improve that.

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 5h

I used my advanced thrust testing stand to finally get a definitive value on Antagonist. It's pushing out an average 2000 grams of peak static thrust! At a flying weight of 1400 grams thats a 1.42 thrust-to-weight ratio

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 8h

Cause if they weren't, then we would've got our boy Raditz 😔

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 8h

It feels like any GT rep was post the success of the game, and pushed for after the fact. unlike the Budokai series FighterZ didn't feel like it was intended as another Dragon Ball simulator, so they really reserved on who would be in the roster

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 9h

Also I realize that this is the same Avanti I saw two years ago, and is featured on my first post on Bluesky!

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · Sep 22

Been trying to decide what best to do for a first post on the new app, and I figured a photo of todays visitor at work would be the best

This here is a Piaggio P.180 Avanti, perhaps my favorite civilian aircraft. Its a high speed, twin pusher business prop, and probably reflects me most as a person

A silver and red airplane sitting on the concrete ramp of an airport. The aircraft features large, 5 bladed propellers facing reward on a mid mounted wing.

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 9h

Have another Piaggio Edit, cause this plane is badass
#avgeek

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Lisa 🇨🇦 @peacewind.aero · 12h

When you log into Animal Crossing for the first time in eight months & are reminded that you make absolutely peak design & fashion choices.
#aviation #queer

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 23h

It feels as though it can get to speed more quickly and be at speed more easily. All without any bounciness or roughness. I cannot stress enough how wild it is that adding stiffer lowering springs improved the quality of the ride over stock

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 23h

The new springs did not make my car faster in a straight line, but it did increase the sensation of speed. Acceleration feels very confident with no unsettling. At higher highway speeds the car feels so planted, much more than before.

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

Piaggio edit.

I like the opportunity to shoot planes like cars #avgeek

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

These surfaces are controlled by the flight computer, and deflect either up or down in response to positive or negative Gs. In this way the wing will avoid being overloaded, and your aircraft avoids additional structure, weight and cost.

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

Some jets are modified with wider wingspans and winglets to extract greater cruise efficiency, but the more wing you add on a plane, the more load and stress the structure will see at all Gs of maneuver.

To avoid re-engineering the whole wing for these add-ons, these surface elements come with it

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

This is not an aileron. This is a special G load device you'll see on some Cessna Citation Jets!
#avgeek

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

Yaoi on Ice is Yuri on Ice. Yuri on Ice is Revolutionary Girl Utena

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

"For 2 long years of genocide, your love kept us alive when the world forgot us. 💔 Every dollar you gave was a heartbeat for my little boy Nasser. But his medicine is running out, and hunger is closing in again. Please, don’t let our light fade now ,we still need you. 🙏❤️‍🩹"
🔗 gofund.me/edd687b8

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

Your lad can take him. Built vs Bought

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

And you KNOW I got video of a takeoff too! #avgeek #bizjet

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

And of course I got some video of them rolling #avgeek #bizjet

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 1d

Who woulda thought Union Pacific rocked some sleek Falcon 2000EXs

#avgeek

Two white Dassault Falcon 2000EXs with red trim parked side by side on a sunny day.

The two Union Pacific Falcon 2000EXs from the side. They rock a stylized American flag on the tail (which I always find ironic with foreign aircraft)

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🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 2d

At first I was done with buying Lego F1 products, but I came across this limited run Mercedes model at a steal of a price, $26. It was my birthday, so why not!

🎃Caleb is a McFreakin Spectre 🎃 @airheadedaviator.bsky.social · 2d

Woof?! It looks great!